Instead of bringing and building I hold that it's also breaking apart the Dem alliances.  

When this election started I thought we would be talking about the economy and the future of American democracy in the new age of globalization.  I though Corporatism would be the unifying issue, instead, it has devolved into identity politics.
Guess who wins?  Not the women, not the AA's, not the Latinos and not the Gay community.  We all lose.  This is about class.

 Personally, I do hold Obama responsible for making it an election about his "person" and not about the issues we are facing.  He has created a feeble movement that is held together by "his person" not by the ideals. In the process of creating this feeble movement, he has damaged the old alliances.   I wanted the Democratic lines to be forged together:  Labor, minorities, elderly, and add to that youth.  But we have devolved into mini bickerings that truly are not dignified.  They distract and we have no time.

I thought Katrina would have been the 9/11 unifying populist symbol the way 9/11 was the "security" symbol.   But no, we are back where the powers that be want us.  The GE will end up being a "how mean can you be fest"

In the case of Dallas county, the article says that Obama run 66% of the vote, and the downticket dropoff was 30%.  However, the number of primary voters increased from 51775 voters to 297336 -- a factor of about 5.7.

On the other hand, consider Webb county, where the downticket dropoff was only 11%, and Hillary won 88% of the vote.  There, the number of primary voters increased from 27120 to 41866 -- a much smaller increase of about 1.5 times.

He is good at asking people to vote for a specific Democrat.  What he's not good at is giving people reasons to vote for "generic Democrat," reasons for them to believe the Democratic agenda is inherently superior.  In fact, he manages to blur that with his constant "both sides are to blame" rhetoric.

It's beautiful that all these new people are getting involved. But now they are panicking about the Convention/Assembly process, completely uninformed about the downticket races, and threatening to vote McCain if Hillary wins.

Obama owes it to the nation to keep messaging to his supporters about what a difference they will make not just to Obama but to the House and Senate, give them an ongoing civics lesson, and percolate the "movement" into a movement, not just a cult of personality.

A personality based movement of 1?

That despite general indications to the contrary, superdelegates override the will of the people and go with the will of the party.

Obama never seems to ask (the exception being to ask for a vote for Bill Foster in the IL-14 race) the voters to vote for Democrats. This could be the upshot of Barack Obama's post-partisan Unity Schtick.

Everything I've seen about this phenomenon so far sells Obama, and being part of new hot thing between the iPhone and the next new hot thing, rather than winning the election and, after that, governing

The focus is on beating the Mean Monster Lady, who, to hear the rhetoric and based on the behavior of Team Obama and followers, is what is impeding Obama's vision of New Nice Politics.

Once she is removed, everything will just magically, mystically fall into place. You'll see.

Republicans? Yeah, whatever, they'll happily go along with Obama's "plan" because, um, er, he'll unite them and stuff.

Every fragment of this sales pitch is geared towards involving people in the phenomenon of the PHENOMENOM but not encouraging return involvement, and that's the problem. It's a hard immediate sell because the people selling have no f*cking idea how to make good on their promises.

It's like those products and services that promote rebates, savings, warranties, blah blah blah on the knowledge that most people won't follow up and, oh, if they do, they can simply be shut out by making it hard (if not impossible) to claim what was promised.

The momentum, following, and juice to use against the Rethuggernaut is not sustainable past the summer.

Ever run a marathon, or even a race, or been in something for the long haul? Then you know all about breaking out of the gate, covering ground and having KICK for the final laps -- the playoffs, the finals.

Team Obama's already showing lapses in integrity and not living up to the standards they set for others. Apparently they're not so disinclined to hurl mud, foment division and invent scandal out of thin air.

The problem is that their weakness is becoming evident exponentially as all their weaponry is leveled against HRC, leaving none against the Rethug crusher waiting around the corner. Most of the hands and boots that will be needed well into November and beyond will be gone shortly after HRC is taken down (pausing for a celebration and some hot/cold wrist therapy from patting themselves on the back.)